Kathy Boutis B.Sc., M.Sc., MD, FRCPC

Staff Physician, Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Senior Associate Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences

The Hospital for Sick Children

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. Boutis has become an internationally recognized thought leader in paediatric emergency medicine, whose research on musculoskeletal injuries has challenged dogma and is transforming practice. She links her core research area to child abuse, radiation exposure and how trainees learn. Her established work on learning curves and the interpretation of diagnostic images combines scholarship in education theory, decision-making and implementation science.

Dr. Boutis is currently a staff physician in the emergency department at The Hosptial for Sick Children, a Senior Associate Scientist in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program at SickKids Resarch Institute, and a Professor of Paediatrics with the University of Toronto. 

Natasha Collia MD, FAAP

Staff Physician, Paediatric Emergency Medicine

The Hospital for Sick Children

Dr. Collia is a Staff Physician in the Emergency Department and Simulation Educator. Her other roles include: Program Director for the Community PEM Focused Fellowship, Hospital Site coordinator for the EM Resident Training Program and a hospital Peer Support Mentor. Her passion for Simulation Medicine and Trainee Education are both highlighted in her current goal to formalize and grow the Hospital Simulation Trauma Training Curriculum.

Dr. Collia is recognized as a Sick Kids Ambassador and featured in her own commercial for the VS campaign. Her passions expand beyond the hospital walls where she brings Public Education from the institutional level to Social Media, being an ambassador for common pediatric illnesses and educating parents on how to advocate for their children.

Beyond the hospital setting, Dr. Collia enjoys an active lifestyle, with an adventurous spirit. She can be found spending time pampering her fur-baby Nikko, supporting a local charity event or attending outdoor concerts. Her guilty pleasure? Catching the latest superhero film, never passing on the popcorn!

Adrienne Davis MD

Staff Physician, Paediatric Emergency Medicine

The Hospital for Sick Children

Bio Coming Soon!

Vicky Fera MD, 

Staff Physician, Paediatric Emergency Medicine

The Hospital for Sick Children

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Bio Coming Soon!

Alisha Jamal MD

Community Outreach Lead, Paediatric Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound Program

Staff Physician, Paediatric Emergency Medicine

The Hospital for Sick Children

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. Alisha Jamal is an emergency medicine physician and POCUS faculty at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. She also provides care as a pediatric hospitalist and in an office-based setting. Her academic interests include developing pediatric POCUS training initiatives for community providers and building pediatric competencies in community settings. 

Paul Kadar MD

Staff Physician, Department of Paediatrics
SCAN Program

The Hospital for Sick Children

Dr. Paul Kadar is a pediatrician member of the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He completed his Pediatric Residency Training at McGill University and at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in 2005, and has been working in the field of Child Maltreatment Pediatrics in Ottawa and Toronto ever since.  Dr. Kadar has testified as an expert in Child Maltreatment in numerous legal proceedings in Quebec and Ontario. He also provides medicolegal expert second opinions in Child Maltreatment cases for stakeholders from across the country.

When not doing Child Maltreatment work, Dr. Kadar maintains a busy primary care and consulting pediatric practice in the east end of Toronto.
Dr. Kadar is also an investigating coroner for the City of Toronto where he investigates pediatric and adult sudden deaths. He is a physician member of the Child Injury Interpretation Committee under the auspices of the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario. The Committee meets on an ad hoc basis to review complex or suspicious pediatric deaths in the province of Ontario.

As an educator, Dr. Kadar assists in the training of medical students, NPs, residents and fellows at Sick Kids and in his private practice. He is also involved in Curriculum development projects for Child Abuse Investigators including police, Child Welfare workers and lawyers.  He helped to develop an educational curriculum on child maltreatment as well as Homicide Investigation at the local and provincial levels, and has been teaching at the Toronto and Ontario Police Colleges for well over a decade.

Ana Marissa Lagman-Bartolome MD

The Hospital for Sick Children

Dr. Marissa Lagman is a Fellow of the American Headache Society and UCNS Diplomate in Headache Medicine. She is the Director of the Headache Program at the Hospital for Sick Children, an Associate Professor in Pediatrics (Neurology), the Director of the Comprehensive Pediatric Headache Center and Young Adult Headache Transition Clinic as well as the Director of the Education Program of Pediatric Neurology at the Children’s Hospital in London Health Sciences Center, Western University in London, Ontario. She continues to be an adjunct faculty staff at the University of Toronto doing research projects and continue her work as the co-chair of the Transition of Care Committee in the Department of Neurology at University of Toronto.

She serves on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Headache Society and as a co-leader of the Pediatric Canadian Headache Network (PeCaHN). She is also currently an active member and faculty staff of the American Headache Society including the Pediatric & Adolescent Headache Special Interest Group where she is leading the development of the AHS Consensus Statement on the Status Migrainosus Treatment Protocol in Pediatric ED and in-patient setting.

She is a clinician and teacher with several teaching awards since she started at University of Toronto. She is actively involved in research including the pediatric CGRP trials, migraine variants, peripheral nerve blocks and headache education as well as teaching endeavors at U of T, Western University and for the American Headache Society and Canadian Society.

She has published book chapters in headaches in children and adults, metabolic headaches and other secondary headaches, review articles on migraine in women, menstrual migraine, management of pediatric post-traumatic headache, approach to intractable pediatric migraine, acute treatment of migraine in children and adults, pediatric migraine variants, use of CGRP monoclonal antibodies in children and research articles in headache education.

She is a reviewer for the following journals: Neurology journal, Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, The Journal of Canadian Neurological Sciences, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, Journal of Integrative Medicine and Pediatric Drugs.

Rebecca Levy MD, FRCPC

Staff Physician, Section of Dermatology, Division of Paediatric Medicine

The Hospital for Sick Children

Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto

Dr. Rebecca Levy is a Staff Physician at The Hospital for Sick Children, and at Scarborough Health Network where she runs a Paediatric Dermatology outpatient clinic and provides inpatient consultation services. She is an Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto

Dr. Levy’s research interests include clinical outcomes and novel therapies for both common and rare paediatric skin disorders.

Prashant Mahajan MD

The Hospital for Sick Children

Bio Coming Soon!

Isaac Odame MB ChB, MRCP (UK), FRCPCH, FRCPath, FRCPC

Haematology Section Head, Division of Haematology/Oncology

The Hospital for Sick Children

Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto

Dr. Isaac Odame is the Haematology Section Head in the Division of Hameatology/Oncology and the Medical Director of the Global Sickle Cell Disease Network at the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children. He is a professor and Director of the Division of Adult and Paediatric Haematology in the Departments of Medicine and Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. His work with the Centre for Global Child health is building enduring collaborations between clinicians/scientists worldwide to further research and advance care of patients, parrticulary in low-incom countries with heaviest disease burden. 

Olivia Ostrow MD, FAAP

Staff Physician, Paediatric Emergency Medicine

The Hospital for Sick Children

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. Ostrow is an academic clinician and the patient safety lead for the Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children, and an associate professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. She received her MD at West Virginia University School of Medicine and completed a combined Internal Medicine and Paediatrics training at the University of California San Diego and the University of Rochester. She is board certified in both specialties and holds a certificate in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety from the University of Toronto. Locally, she is a medical safety leader at the Hospital for Sick Children and plays a key leadership role in the hospital’s Choosing Wisely campaign along with other frontline improvement work. At the provincial level, she is actively involved in the P4R Emergency Department Return Visit Quality Initiative with Health Quality Ontario. Dr. Ostrow is the co- director for the certificate course at the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (C-QuIPS).

Jonathan Pirie MD, MEd, FRCPC, ABP (PEM)

Staff Physician, Paediatric Emergency Medicine

The Hospital for Sick Children

Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. Pirie is a staff physician and medical educator in the Division of Pediatric
Emergency Medicine and Professor, University of Toronto. He is a medical educator and the Director of the PEM Simulation Program. His clinical interests are in the resuscitation of acutely ill or injured children and the management of febrile infants and children at risk for serious or invasive bacterial infection.

Joshua Ramjist MD

The Hospital for Sick Children

Dr. Joshua Ramjist is a Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children. He completed his MD and MBA at St. George’s University, a MSc from the University of Toronto and adult general surgery training at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY.  He has completed fellowships in Pediatric Trauma, Neonatal Surgical Care, Pediatric Simulation medicine and Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. His areas of interest include pediatric trauma and medical education.

Joshua Ramjist is a Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children. He completed his MD and MBA at St. George’s University, a MSc from the University of Toronto and adult general surgery training at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY.  He has completed fellowships in Pediatric Trauma, Neonatal Surgical Care, Pediatric Simulation medicine and Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. His areas of interest include pediatric trauma and medical education.

Savithiri Ratnapalan MBBS, MRCP, FAAP, FRCPC, MEd

Clinican-Educator

Staff Physician, Paediatric Emergency Medicine

The Hospital for Sick Children

Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. Ratnapalan is a Professor of Paediatrics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.  She is a Clinician-Educator in the Divisions of Paediatric Emergency medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Hospital for Sick Children. 

Allison Rodrigues MD

Co-Medical Director, McMaster Eating Disorders Program

Assistant Professor, McMaster University

Dr. Allison Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor of Paediatrics in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at McMaster University. She is the Co-Medical Director of the McMaster Eating Disorders Program which has a large outpatient program, dedicated in-patient unit; as well as, a day hospital program

Suzan Schneeweiss MD, MEd, FRCPC, CPC(HC)

Staff Physician, Paediatric Emergency Medicine

The Hospital for Sick Children

Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. Schneeweiss is a Professor of Paediatrics and Associate Dean of Continuing Professional Development in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. As Associate Dean of CPD, she promotes the academic mission of the largest CPD office in Canada. She is a staff physician and Director of Education for the Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Dr. Schneeweiss is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine and holds a Masters of Health Professional Education degree from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto. As an academic program director and conference chair for a variety of CPD programs and conferences, she has acquired a broad range of experience in the complexities of program development and has been extensively involved in teaching. Her academic clinical interests include paediatric procedural sedation and pain management.

Deb Schonfeld MD, FRCPC

Staff Physician, Paediatric Emergency Medicine

The Hospital for Sick Children

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. Deborah Schonfeld is a proud Montrealer and a graduate of McGill University Faculty of Medicine. Following medical school, she moved to the US to complete a residency in General Paediatrics at New York University, followed by her fellowship in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. She joined the Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at SickKids in 2013. In 2016 she completed a year long certificate course in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement from the University of Toronto C-QuIPS. Currently, her main academic focus is the recognition and management of sepsis in the paediatric emergency department. She also loves teaching and is very involved in trainee education from the undergraduate through fellowship level.

Devin Singh MBBS, MSc (Computer Science)

Clinical AI and Machine Learning Lead, Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Staff Physician, The Hospital for Sick Children

Dr. Devin Singh is a practicing Paediatric Emergency Medicine Physician from the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Western in medical sciences and went to work for the Ontario Provincial Government as a business analyst. Afterwards, he attended medical school at the University of Sydney, Australia with his paediatric residency and emergency medicine subspecialty training at SickKids Hospital. His research focuses on the use of machine learning to solve some of healthcare’s largest problems. He is the Physician Lead for Clinical Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at SickKids for the Division of Emergency Medicine and has completed a Masters of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Most recently he founded Hero AI, an innovative health tech start-up dedicated to empowering patients and healthcare providers with AI.